Tim Hunkin
― soref, Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
Carol Channing
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
Richard Adams, author of Watership Down (among other things), did a talk/signing at the local bookshop before Christmas and I was surprised for the reason in the thread title; sort of meant to go but forgot about it
― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 2 February 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
2003 roll call (bold=still going)
Richard WidmarkSaddam HusseinStanley BaxterThora HirdAnita O’DayClive DunnDennis HopperMickey RooneyJD SalingerGeorge JonesJoe NamathRed AuerbachStuds TerkelUrsula Moray WilliamsReg VarneyDave AllenChristopher LeeGene WilderRichard PryorWindsor Davies
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 2 February 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
i would have put money on windsor davies being dead even back in 2003. my fervent hope is that christopher lee is immortal.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 2 February 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
christ there were 11 series of Never the Twain?
― woof, Monday, 2 February 2015 13:53 (nine years ago) link
João Havelange, 98
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Harper Lee, last week.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
yeah both of those
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
Bob Elliott (from Bob and Ray)
― soref, Sunday, 22 February 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
Bill Treacher aka Arthur FowlerDenis Norden (93 years old!)
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 23 February 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I thought Bill Treacher was dead as well until he rocked up on one of the EastEnders things this week.
― ailsa, Monday, 23 February 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
i haven't thought about denis norden in years, i guess mainly because i was sure he was dead
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 23 February 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
I can kind of remember Denis Norden dying in 2002 or something.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
tom lehrer
― norway srna (nakhchivan), Saturday, 28 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
Bob Elliott
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
― norway srna (nakhchivan), Saturday, February 28, 2015 4:27 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
:O
― imago, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
Percy Sledge (except he isn't any more)
― ailsa, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
george cole
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 11:34 (nine years ago) link
Max Von Sydow will always be the answer to to this question for me.
― Hydroelectric New Deal Demiurge (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
martin strong, editor of the great rock discography
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
sounds like good news for Max or bad news for you xp
― soref, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:47 (nine years ago) link
Connie Francis
― Josefa, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:30 (nine years ago) link
Arthur Scargill
and Denis Healey is 98 years old!
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Jimmy Carter
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
I know its been said many a time in this thread (even 10 years ago!) but Christopher Lee.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 23 April 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Maybe I confused him with Bela Lugosi or something, haw.
Baby Peggy
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
m.h. abrams
― j., Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link
had the exact same thought. he seems like (is?) someone from an entirely different era.
― ryan, Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:13 (nine years ago) link
honestly without thinking i would have assumed he died in the 60s, 70s at the latest
― j., Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:41 (nine years ago) link
Margaret Keane
(just watched Big Eyes)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:49 (nine years ago) link
Norman Lloyd
(just watched Sabotage)
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 27 April 2015 11:49 (nine years ago) link
Christopher Lee is alive and well and still cranking out the metal albums:
http://heartlandrecords.com.au/WebRoot/Store/Shops/heartlandrecordstrial/5243/A981/DA36/DC4C/0FCF/C0A8/6152/0D2B/christopher_lee_charlemagne_the_omens_of_death_lp_front.JPG
― yeovil knievel (NickB), Monday, 27 April 2015 12:07 (nine years ago) link
When did he have his arms shortened?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 April 2015 12:20 (nine years ago) link
chuck berry
― it me, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link
oh, and angela lansbury
― it me, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 02:59 (nine years ago) link
until ten minutes ago, if you had asked me if Dr. Ruth is dead I would have said with 100% certainty that yes, Dr. Ruth is dead, but apparently not
― soref, Sunday, 3 May 2015 00:29 (eight years ago) link
She's not?
― pplains, Sunday, 3 May 2015 02:17 (eight years ago) link
The two head coaches of the January 1974 Super Bowl are still alive: Don Shula (85) and Bud Grant (88)
― Josefa, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
Herman Wouk (100 on May 27).
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Monday, 18 May 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
For some reason I thought Regis Philben had died, but he just put in his last Letterman appearance, so I stand corrected.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 03:51 (eight years ago) link
Ron Moody
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:20 (eight years ago) link
Christopher Lee is alive and well and still cranking out the metal albums
alas no more :(
― irl friend of the geir (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:36 (eight years ago) link
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/83559000/jpg/_83559942_ron_moody_rex.jpg
saw this flash up on twitter and momentarily thought mick fleetwood had carked it
― irl friend of the geir (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:38 (eight years ago) link
Had no idea Ornette Coleman was still alive until he wasn't.
― ed.b, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
http://40.media.tumblr.com/74c0bef5ca7f7897f90852bd16caa439/tumblr_n2ztpzpmi71rw4bsao1_500.jpg
― dylannn, Saturday, 11 July 2015 08:15 (eight years ago) link
watching late spring for the first time in years and casually googled.
― dylannn, Saturday, 11 July 2015 08:16 (eight years ago) link
Omar Sharif.
― either this is the worst dichotomy ever, or I'm a (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Saturday, 11 July 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
x 2
― pplains, Saturday, 11 July 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link